Trump Hosts Salvadoran Leader Who’s Aiding Migrant Crackdown (1)

In just a decade, El Salvador has gone from murder capital of the world to become a nation where mass incarceration and hardline policing have brought peace to the streets.

On Monday, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele will have a chance to take a victory lap in the Oval Office with US President Donald Trump, who is sending alleged migrant gang members to Bukele’s mega-jail for a fee over the objections of some US judges.

El Salvador’s transformation has been such that the US now considers the Central American country to be safer than France or the UK. And ...